Professor Amartya Sen

Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics
Lamont University Professor, Harvard University

Amartya Sen received the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in welfare economics. He is recognized for his contributions to social choice theory, development economics, and political philosophy. His research has spanned the fields of economics, philosophy, and decision theory. Professor Sen was Lamont University Professor at Harvard University from 1988 to1998. He was the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2004 before returning to Harvard University. Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard, Sen had been Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University and Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and at Delhi University. Sen has served as President of the Econometric Society, the Indian Economic Association, the American Economic Association, and the International Economic Association. The several books he has authored have been translated into many languages and span subjects including poverty, famine, economic inequality, collective choice, freedom, and justice. Sen has received honorary doctorates from universities in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to the Nobel Prize, other awards Sen has received include the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honor given by the President of India; the Senator Giovanni Agnelli International Prize in Ethics; the Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Award; the Edinburgh Medal; the Brazilian Ordem do Merito Cientifico (Grã-Cruz); the Eisenhower Medal; and honorary membership in the United Kingdom’s Order of Companions of Honour.